Iran apologises for strikes on neighbours, Trump calls nation ‘loser of Middle East’
Although Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would halt attacks on regional nations, intense fire has still been targeting Gulf states
Iran’s president said on Saturday that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a “dream that they should take to their grave”.
President Masoud Pezeshkian made the statement in a pre-recorded address aired by state television.
He also apologised for Iran’s attacks on regional countries, saying that Tehran would halt them and suggesting they were caused by miscommunication in the ranks.
He blamed the killing of the country’s supreme leader and other top officials for what sounded like a loss of command and control in the armed forces in recent days.
The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states early on Saturday while Israel and the United States kept up their air strikes targeting the Islamic Republic.
Iran says it will halt strikes on neighbouring nations
Pezeshkian’s statement on Saturday said the country’s three-man leadership council had been in touch with the armed forces over the attacks.